156 THE zoologist; 



nesting-box ; the cock Blue Robin, at the approach of cold weather, appro* 

 priated the former and the hen the latter as sleeping berths ; but the poor 

 young cock was left out in the cold, which gradually brought on tubercu- 

 losis of the liver and spleen, from which he died on the night of Dec. 9th 

 I should therefore recommend all who desire to keep these birds in an 

 unheated structure to provide them with some box in a warm corner near the 

 roof, into which they may creep to pass the winter nights. — A. G. Butler 

 (Natural History Museum, South Kensington). 



REPTILIA. 



A New Locality for Lacerta viridis. — Mr. Norman Douglass states 

 (p. 16) that the range of Lacerta viridis, Laur., in Baden, is apparently 

 restricted to two points, — the Isteiner Klotz. a hill lying between Freiburg 

 and Bale, and the Kaiserstuhl, between Freiburg and the Rhine. I can 

 add a third locality in the Grand Duchy. While living at Heidelberg, in 

 1887, my brother and I frequently met with this Lizard during the spring, 

 in the grass on the north bank of the Neckar, a short distance above the 

 town, which lies on the opposite side of the river. We invariably found the 

 two sexes together, and on one occasion we found a pair in a hole in a bank 

 several hundred feet up the hill, on the same side of the river. I kept a 

 number in captivity during the summer of 18S7, and they throve well on 

 earth-worms and butterflies, varying the monotony by devouring an occa- 

 sional L. agilis. Mr. Douglass states that he has found the eggs " as early 

 as the latter part of June," but one of mine laid a number of eggs on 

 June 10th, in the early morning, and another individual laid on June 15th. 

 Perhaps I ought to state that I kept my Lizards between the double windows 

 of my room, on the south side of the house, so that they got a large amount 

 of sun. The first time that eggs were laid the male Lizards promptly 

 seized some, and ate about three before I could stop them. The remainder 

 of the eggs, and those laid subsequently, I placed in the sun to see whether 

 they would hatch ; but they only shrivelled up, although union of the sexes 

 had taken place before the eggs were laid. — E. E. Austen (Natural History 

 Museum, Cromwell Road). 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Linnean Society of London. 



February 19, 1891. — Prof. Stewart, President, in the chair. 



Messrs. A. W. Kappel, E. M'Clure, J. F. Braga, and W. M. Webb 

 were admitted Fellows; and Messrs. H. Jones, F. H. Coste, and A. W. 

 Turnbull were elected. 



